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169. Vaccinium hirtum, r riuiul). Fl. Jap. ]>. 155; Max. Mel. Biol. Yin, p. 605; Fr. & Sav. 



Enum. i, p. 605. — Var. Smaiiii, Max. I.e. Vaeeinium Smallii, A. Gray, Bot. 



Jap. p. 398; F. Schm. PI. Sach. |>. L56. 

 Huh. Mtorofii, at K'nrnbetsu and Arimoi. 

 Distrib. Southern Saghalin to Kiusin in Japan. 



170. Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Spreng. Sysl. Veg. ir, p. 287; Ledeb. PI. Ross. II, p. 000; 



F. Schm. Fl. Sach. p. 157 ; A. Gray, Synop. Fl. n, p. 27. Arbutus Uva-ursi, 

 L. Sp. p. 395; Pallas, Fl. Ross, i, 2, p. 18. 

 If<tl>. Kurile Islands (ex Pallas). 



Distrib. Arctic and alpine Europe; northern Asia, especially in the mountain dis- 

 tricts of southern Siberia, northern Saghalin, eastern Siberia and Kamtschatka; Alaska 

 in North America, where it spreads over the arctic and northern regions descending 

 along the higher mountains to New Mexico and northern California in the west, and to 

 Pennsylvania in the east. 



171. Cassiope lycopodioides, Don, in Edinb. IS". Phil. Jonrn. xvn, p. 157; Ledeb. Fl. 



Ross, ii, p. 012; Max. Mel. Biol, vm, p. 014; Fr. & Sav. Enum. i, p. 285; A. 

 Gray, Synop. Fl. ir, p. 36. Andromeda lycopodioides, Pallas, Fl. Ross, t, 2, p. 

 55, t. 73, f. 1. 

 Hab. Shumshu (Hakodate Museum) . 



Distrib. Eastern Siberia in the Ochotsk district; Kamtschatka; Yezo (Vole. Talmai, 

 Prov. Iburi) to middle Japan; Aleutian Islands to Oregon in North America. 



172. Leucothoe Grayana, Max.! Mel. Biol, vm, p. 613; Fr. & Sav. Enum. I, p. 284. L. 



cklorantha, A. Gray, Bot. Jap. p. 300 (not DC). 

 Ilcib. Shikotan, on hillsides. 



The plant is common in the mountain woods of Yezo on both the eastern and western 

 coasts. It comes down as far south as middle Japan, where it is found only in the al- 

 pine woods. 



173. Bryanthus taxifolius, A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, vn, p. 368, Synop. Fl. n, p. 37. 



Phyllodoce taxifolia, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 56; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, ir, p. 016; 

 Max. Rhod. As. Or. p. 6. 

 JTctb. Pan mi ush ir ! (ex Max.) . 



Distrib. Northern Europe and the central Pyrenees; Altai and Baikal districts of Si- 

 beria, Dahuria, northern Manchuria, eastern Siberia, Kamtschatka, northern and middle 

 Japan; Aleutian Islands, Copper Island; and also on the alpine mountain summits of 

 northern New England and Canada, Labrador, Greenland. 



174. Rhododendron chrysanthum, Pall. It. ill, p. 720, t. iv, f. 1-2; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. H, p. 



020; Max. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 180, Rhod. As. Or. p. 20. 

 Hob. Shumshu ! (ex Max.) . 



Distrib. Altai and Baikal districts of Siberia, Dahuria, northeastern Manchuria, east- 

 ern Siberia, Kamtschatka, and adjacent islands to Sitka; Saghalin, northern and middle 

 Japan, Yezo (L. Bohmer), Tateyama, Prov. Etchu (Yatabe). 



175. Rhododendron kamtschaticum, Pall. Fl. Ross. I, p. 48, t. 33; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, n, 



p. 022; Max. Rhod. As. Or. p. 41; A. Gray, Synop. Fl., n, p. 40. 

 Ilab. TJrwpl (ex Max.). Shikotan, on rocky cliffs along the harbor. 



